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(NO Model.) V 2 sheets-sheet 1.

H. H. EATHERTON & S. STAKHOSE.

CHECK ROWER.

NO. 301,346. P'atented July 1, 1884.

WITNESSES 2 Sheet-s-Sheen 2.

(No Model.)

H. I-I. EATHERTON 8a S. STAOKHOUSE.

CHECK ROWER.

Patented July 1, 1884.

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iJNrrnD rarns Pnrnnr' rrren HENRY H. EATHERTON AND SAMUEL STACKHOUSE, OF MONTICELLO, ILL.

CHECKfiROWER.

sPBoIPIcA'rIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 801,846, dama July 1, asa-. Application filcd January 10, 1884. (No model.)

' To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, I-IENRY H. En'rnnR'roN and SAMUEL STAoKi-Iousn, eitizens of the United States, and residents of Monticello, in the county of Piatt and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvet mcnts in Oheck-Rowers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exaet description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specifieation, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved check-rower. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 is a front view, and Fig. 4 is a bottom view.

Similar letters of reference indieate corresponding parts in all the figures.

In the aceompanying drawings, the letter A indieates the planter-frame, having seed-bones B, shoes O, and seed-slide D, all of which parts are of the usual construction.

The planter is provided with` a pole and means for attaching the draft,vand a truek,E, is attached to the rear end of the said frame, which truck is mounted on wheels F, has the driver7 s seat G mounted upon it, and has means for regulating the depth to which the shoes of the planter are to go.

A shaft, H, is journaled in the forward end of the planter-frame, transversely across the same, and a disk, I, having four (more or less) bifureated arms, J is secured upon the said shaft at the center of the frame. A cam or drum, K, having four (more or less) grooves, L, in its surface, running in zigzag and corresponding in number and position to the number and position of the arms, is secured upon thesame shaft, and two lugs, M, upon the inner sides of the outer ends of the bifurcated ends N of a lever, O, project into these grooves, the arm or lever roeking laterally in a horizontal plane when the cam is revolved. A connecting-rod, P, is pivoted at one endto the free end of the lever, and at the other end to the seedslide, the slide thus moving once for each arm upon the disk. I

A pulley, Q, is journaled in a braeket, R, upon the under side of the planter-frame, in the central line of the same, which bracket is open at one side, so as to allow the check rope or Wire S to be placed upon the pulley, and the rope passes from the pulley, over which it passes from between the team drawin g the machine through the arms upon the disk, each ball upon the rope or Wire turning the disk a part of a revolution.

Two guide-plates, T, proj eet from the under side of the planter-frame--o11e upon each side of the armed disk-serving to protect the arms from injury, and to guide the rope. From the disk the rope passes over a pulley,U, j ournaled under the aXle of the truck, from whence it is carried out at the rear of the machine between pulleys V upon the end of a hinged arm, 7, which deposits the rope in the middle of the next row. This arm is hinged at one end to the middle of the rear side of the truck-frame, and is provided at its outer end with an upwardlyprojecting bracket, X, having the pulleys journaled at its outer end, and having a guidefinger, Y, which serves to guide the ropeupon the pulleys. Two ilat bars, Z, are sccured to the rear side of the truck-frame, and have their outer ends, A', turned upward, the bars extending rearwardly and slightly toward the sides, and the said upwardly-bent e'nds are bent in outwardly-divcrgent Vertical planes, so that the hinged arm maybe placed upon one of the bars and extend in a laterally and rearwardly extended position. It will thus be seen that the rope may be placed to pass over' either side of the pulley upon the truck-axle, from which it will be passed ove'r the pulleys upon the hinged arm, which may be placed to eXtend to either side, the rope passing over the side of the horizontal pulley under the tru'ek-axle opposite to the side to which the arm extends.

Ve are aware that it is not new to have an arm earrying guide-pulleys for the rope or wire, passing through the center of the machine, hinged to the rear end of a check-rower, and we do not claim such constructon,broadly; but it will be seen that by having the arm hinged so as to cxtend obliquely to either side the strain upon the arm and upon its fastenings will be less than when the arm is hinged to project at a right angle to the center line of the machine; and it will also be seen that by having the bars supporting the hinged arm proj ecting obliquelyrearward the strain upon the same will likewise be distributed in sev- IOO eral directions, and the upwardly-bent ends of obliquely-extending supporting-bars, having the bars Wi11 I'etain the arm in its position, theirzends bent up'ward and supporting the and at the same time allow it to be easily hinged arm in an obliquely 1atera1 position, 15 changed from one bar to the other. as and foi` the purpose shown and set forth. 5 We therefore claim- In testiinony that we claim the foregoing as In a check-rower having the disk operated our own We have hereunto affixed ou1` signaby the rope 01' Wire located in the central line tures in presence of two witnesses.

of the machine, the combination of the guide- HENRY H. EATHERTON.

pulley journaled in the central line of the Ina- SAMUEL STAOKHOUSE. Io chine, the arm having the guide-pulleys jour- Witnesses:

naled upon its end and hinged upon the cen- RILEY I. TATMAR,

ter of the real' end of the frame, and the| CALEB TATMAR. 

